Contents: Minoji Akimoto: On the Decline of after and forth in Verb Phrases ? Anita Auer: Precept and Practice: The Influence of Prescriptivism on the English Subjunctive ? Joan C. Beal/Anthony P. Grant: ≪Make do and mend≫: An Online Investigation into Processes of Neologisation and the Dearth of Borrowing in Newer English Wartime Vocabulary ? Claudia Claridge: ‘With the most superlative felicitee’: Functions of the Superlative in 19th-Century English ? Thomas Egan: Pronominal and Full Nominal Subjects in Expanding Constructions ? Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson: Irregular Verbs in 17th- and 18th-Century English Grammars: A Maze of Classifications ? Minna Palander-Collin/Minna Nevala: Reporting in 18th-Century Letters of Hester Piozzi ? Gunter Rohdenburg: The Role of Functional Constraints in the Evolution of the English Complementation System ? Anni Sairio: Progressives in the Letters of Elizabeth Montagu and her Circle in 1738-1778 ? Elena Seoane: Changing Styles: On the Recent Evolution of Scientific British and American English ? Stefan Thim: Phrasal Verbs in Late Middle and Early Modern English: Combinations with back, down, forth, out, and up ? Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade: ≪Disrespectful and too familiar≫? Abbreviations as an Index of Politeness in 18th-Century Letters.
